con·fec·tion·er

(kən-fĕk′shə-nər)

One that makes or sells confections.

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confectioner

(kənˈfɛkʃənə)

(Commerce) a person who makes or sells sweets or confections

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

con•fec•tion•er

(kənˈfɛk ʃə nər)

n.

a person who makes or sells candies and, sometimes, ice cream, cakes, etc.

[1585–95]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

confectioner - someone who makes candies and other sweets

candymaker

maker, shaper - a person who makes things

Translations

صانِع أو بائِعُ الحَلْوى

cukrář

konditorkonfekturehandler

cukrász

sælgætisgerîarmaîur; sælgætissali

konditerijakonditerijos parduotuvėkonditeris

saldumu ražotājs/pārdevējs

konditor

cukrár

şekerci

制造或销售糖果的人

confectioner

[kənˈfekʃənəʳ] N → confitero/a m/f
confectioner's (shop) → confitería f, dulcería f (LAm)
confectioner's sugar (US) → azúcar m glas(eado)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

confectioner

[kənˈfɛkʃənə^r] n

[cakes] → pâtissier/ière m/f

[sweets] → confiseur/euse m/fconfectioner's shop confectioner's [kənˈfɛkʃənə^rz] n → confiserie(-pâtisserie) fconfectioners' sugar (US) n → sucre m glace

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

confectioner

n (= maker) → Konditor m, → Zuckerbäcker m (old); (= seller also) → Süßwarenverkäufer(in) m(f); confectioner’s (shop) → Süßwarenladen m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

confectioner

[kənˈfɛkʃ/ənəʳ] n → pasticciere m
confectioner's (shop) → pasticceria

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

confectioner

(kənˈfekʃənə) noun

a person who makes or sells sweets or cakes.

conˈfectionery noun

1. sweets, chocolates etc.

2. the shop or business of a confectioner.

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The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.

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Or how, at the tender age when a confectioner seems to him a very prince whom all the world must envy--who breakfasts on macaroons, dines on meringues, sups on twelfth-cake, and fills up the intermediate hours with sugar-candy or peppermint--how is he to foresee the day of sad wisdom, when he will discern that the confectioner's calling is not socially influential, or favourable to a soaring ambition?

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It was with this extraordinary procession trooping at his and Maria's heels into a confectioner's in quest if the biggest candy- cane ever made, that he encountered Ruth and her mother.

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And at the confectioner's, and at Fomin's, and at Foulde's he saw that he was expected; that they were pleased to see him, and prided themselves on his happiness, just as every one whom he had to do with during those days.

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In the cool blue twilight of two steep streets in Camden Town, the shop at the corner, a confectioner's, glowed like the butt of a cigar.

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She stopped at a confectioner's and ordered a huge box of bonbons for the children in Iberville.

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They looked longingly through the glass, getting some little comfort from the titles of the volumes, as hungry children imbibe emotional nourishment from the pies and tarts inside a confectioner's window.

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I've never been able to look a confectioner's window in the face since.

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He married a woman who keeps a confectioner's shop in the Rue des Lombards, for he's a lad who was always fond of sweetmeats; he's now a citizen of Paris.

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This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over.

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It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a confectioner's man with a very large flat box.

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All was wild and solitary, and one might have declared it a scene untrodden by the foot of man, but for the telegraph posts and small piles of broken "macadam" at punctual intervals, and the ginger-beer bottles and paper bags of local confectioners that lent an air of civilisation to the road.

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